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01-23-2025, 08:30 PM
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Re: Russian/Ukraine War Discussion Thread IX
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-ne...-drop-sausage/ Surrendering North Korean soldier refuses to drop sausage at gunpoint A surrendering North Korean soldier risked his life by refusing to drop his sausage at gunpoint, according to the Ukrainian paratroopers who captured him. A detailed video account, published by Ukrainian special forces, described how the soldier refused to lay down his food, while one of his compatriots tried to kill himself by running into a pillar. They later asked to watch Korean romance films, the Ukrainians said. “He was lying there, with his head and an arm wounded. He had a grenade, a knife and a sausage on him,” one of the soldiers of Ukraine’s 95th Air Assault Brigade said in an interview published on Tuesday. “I asked him to drop everything, but he refused to drop the sausage because it was food, so we let him keep it.” The brigade captured the two North Koreans alive on Jan 11 – the first of Pyongyang’s troops to be taken back to Kyiv for questioning. No mention in the article if it was a North Korean or Russian sausage that was worth dying for. |
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01-24-2025, 07:09 PM
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Re: Russian/Ukraine War Discussion Thread IX
Pootin is ready to talk to Trump About ending the war. Do we think arse odor is going to give him all of the land he’s taken and that Pootin will behave and not attack anyone else ? Thoughts ? https://news.sky.com/video/share-13295659 |
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01-25-2025, 09:04 AM
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Re: Russian/Ukraine War Discussion Thread IX
US President Donald Trump has abruptly shifted its tone toward the Russo-Ukraine war, showing that he’s not willing to “cozy up to the Kremlin,” writes executive editor at the Telegraph Francis Dearnely. He notes that many in Ukraine were skeptical of Trump due to his multiple unflattering statements toward President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “salesman” and his talk of having a “good relationship” with Vladimir Putin, even though they still preferred him over Joe Biden’s cautious predictability. “Anything but this slow death, one told me,” Dearnely writes, adding, “Now, as Trump’s term begins, the Kremlin is beginning to taste venom. Trump is not a man who sides with losers, and – crucially – he sees Moscow as failing, and defeatable.” He cites the recent statements made by Trump, including his direct ultimatum to Russia to either end the war or face serious economic ramifications, adding that “IT’LL ONLY GET WORSE” if they disagree. “Yet now there are rumors Trump may even leverage $330bn in frozen Russian state assets, threatening to give them to Kyiv to buy US weapons – a move appealing to Trump’s transactional instincts. Military aid could also ramp up, particularly if he pivots the narrative to frame Moscow, not Kyiv, as an obstacle to peace,” Dearnely adds, suggesting that “to think talks with Moscow will end well is optimistic.” |
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01-25-2025, 09:57 AM
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Re: Russian/Ukraine War Discussion Thread IX
President Trump is demanding Saudi Arabia and OPEC to drop the oil price in order to stop the war in Ukraine. This demand - drying up russian revenues - is reminiscent with the 1980s, where Saudi Arabia significantly increased oil production, eventually driving down the oil price and contributing the Soviet Union to economically implode. This is the second significant demand by Trump within a short amount of time which directly puts pressure on Putin. |